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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness; "gaga over the rock group's new album"; "he was infatuated with her" [syn: enamored, infatuated, in love, potty, smitten, soft on, taken with]
2: (British informal) trivial; "potty little details"
3: slightly intoxicated [syn: potty, tiddly, tipsy] n
1: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne]
2: a receptacle for urination or defecation in the bedroom [syn: chamberpot, potty, thunder mug]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective (pottier; -est) Etymology: probably from ¹pot Date: circa 1860 1. British trivial, insignificant 2. chiefly British slightly crazy 3. snobbish II. noun (plural potties) Date: circa 1942 1. a small child's pot for urination or defecation; also potty-chair 2. toilet, bathroom

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. adj. (pottier, pottiest) Brit. sl. 1 foolish or crazy. 2 insignificant, trivial (esp. potty little). Derivatives: pottiness n. Etymology: 19th c.: orig. unkn. 2. n. (pl. -ies) colloq. a chamber-pot, esp. for a child.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(potties) A potty is a deep bowl which a small child uses instead of a toilet. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

absurd, balmy, bananas, barmy, bats, batty, beany, bedpan, bonkers, buggy, bughouse, bugs, can, chamber, chamber pot, chemical closet, chemical toilet, commode, crackers, crapper, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, dippy, dotty, flaky, flipped, freaked-out, fruitcakey, fruity, gaga, goofy, harebrained, haywire, high-hat, inconsiderable, insane, insignificant, jerry, john, johnny, jordan, just plain nuts, kooky, latrine, loo, loony, loopy, minor, nuts, nutty, off the hinges, off the track, off the wall, petty, piss pot, pot, potty-chair, preposterous, privy, round the bend, screwball, screwballs, screwy, shoestring, silly, slaphappy, small, small-beer, snobby, snooty, stool, throne, thunder mug, toilet, trivial, unimportant, urinal, wacky, water closet